Maria Testa

• Apr-1996
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• Oct-1997
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A collection of short stories in which ordinary teenagers are confronted with contemporary issues includes the story of a female student sexually harassed by her English teacher, and two brothers who see their father sent to prison. Reprint....

• Sep-2001
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Named after the mighty Babe Ruth, Ruth DiMarco has some big shoes to fill. But she’s already on her way to achieving her dream of becoming a major-league baseball player. Eleven-year-old Ruth is the star shortstop in her small Maine town, and now a...

• Mar-2005
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"With ineffable tenderness and absolute clarity, Testa tells a tale in blank verse. . . . Powerfully moving as it braids together baseball, family, and the Italian-American experience." BOOKLIST (starred review)
It's 1936, and the Yankees have ju...

• Feb-2007
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"Rapt readers don’t need to know anything about Vietnam to understand love, loss, fear, and waiting. A tour de force." -- KIRKUS REVIEWS (starred review)

When the six-year-old narrator of this lyric novel watches her father march off to se...

• Sep-2007
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The thirteen-year-old from Kosova thinks of herself as a typical American schoolgirl. But for her parents, moving to Maine was just a sad necessity, a way to escape from war and find medical care for a daughter scarred up to her chin. But then a hate...